''Berthe Morisot with a Fan'' is a painting by French artist

Édouard Manet Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Born ...

, executed in 1874. It is the last of the twelve portraits that Manet produced of fellow painter and model

Berthe Morisot Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (; January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895) was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. In 1864, Morisot exhibited for the first time in the highly es ...

, between 1868 and 1874, made just after her marriage to the painter's brother Eugène, after which she no longer posed for him. It shows her dressed in mourning for her father but wearing an engagement ring. It entered Morisot's own collection, possibly directly from the artist, before being donated to the French state in 1999. It was initially allocated to the

Musée d'Orsay The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) ( en, Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art ...

, in

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, before being moved in 2000 to the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, where it still hangs.

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{{19C-painting-stub Paintings by Édouard Manet Portraits of women 19th-century portraits 1874 paintings Paintings in the collection of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille